Benjamin Tappan

Benjamin Tappan (25 May 1773-20 April 1857) was a US Senator from Ohio (D) from 4 March 1839 to 4 March 1845, succeeding Thomas Morris and preceding Thomas Corwin.

Biography
Benjamin Tappan was born in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1773, the brother of abolitionists Arthur and Lewis Tappan. He became a lawyer in Hartford, Connecticut in 1799, and he founded the town of Ravenna, Ohio in 1808. Tappan served in the state legislature and in the US Army during the War of 1812, and he went on to serve as a US Senator from 1839 to 1845 as a Democrat; in 1844, he was censured for leaking John Tyler's plan to annex the Republic of Texas to the New York Evening Post.